Minnesota's most devastating wildfires included the Baudette-Spooner Fire, when extreme autumn conditions in northern Minnesota in 1910 turned several small fires in dry logging slash in Lake of the Woods County into a massive blaze that spread through Baudette and Spooner in less than two hours, burned over 300,000 acres by day's end, destroyed homes across the area, and killed 42 people; the Red Lake Fire, when abnormally dry and hot weather during a long period often called the Dust Bowl era helped turn farmland to dust and northern forests into tinderbox conditions, and on September 11, 1931, a wildfire that started near Red Lake burned nearly one million acres all the way to the Canadian border; the Hinckley Fire, when severe dryness in 1894, slash-pile fires, oppressive heat, and a rare temperature inversion combined on September 1 to create a massive firestorm that sent flames 200 feet high, reached temperatures over 1,600 degrees in Hinckley, burned over 350,000 acres in four hours, destroyed Hinckley, Mission Creek, Brook Park, Sandstone, Miller, Partridge, and Pokegama along with many forest homes, and officially killed over 400 people, with many historians believing the total was much higher; the Pagami Creek Fire, when a lightning strike about 13 miles east of Ely started a small fire along Pagami Creek in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that was first noticed on August 18, 2011, smoldered in a bog, then grew rapidly under very low humidity and strong winds until it burned 93,000 acres before being contained after a month of continuous work by numerous fire crews; and the Cloquet-Moose Lake Fire, when more than 40 smaller fires merged during the exceptionally dry summer of 1918 after one began along a railroad northwest of Cloquet around noon on October 10, then spread toward Duluth and Cloquet with winds over 60 miles per hour, reached Fond du Lac by early evening and Cloquet 45 minutes later, and ultimately burned 960,000 acres, destroyed 36 towns and over 4,000 homes, and killed at least 450 people.